The Causes

Diabetes is a hereditary disease, which means it is mostly passed on from parents, and if any siblings in the family have it you run a high risk of getting it to. (Hicks, 2001) Diabetes can take years to develop inside the body until it finally shows. (Hicks, 2001) Juvenile diabetes is caused because the Pancreatic islets of Langerhan are being destroyed, causing a severe lack of insulin which results of the body attacking and destroying it’s own cells in the pancreas - known as autoimmune. (Hicks, 2001)There are many other ways to get diabetes, like; Infection with a specific virus or bacteria, exposure to food-borne chemical toxins, exposure as a very young infant to cow's milk, where an as yet unidentified component triggers the autoimmune reaction, but the first reasons stated are the most common. (Insulin Pump Therapy, 2006) A lot of people think that eating sweats of the wrong kind of food causes diabetes…think again, because it doesn’t! That is the case in type 2 diabetes. (Insulin Pump Therapy, 2006) Stress does not cause diabetes either, although it may be a trigger for the body turning against itself, as in type 1diabetes. But it does make the symptoms worse for people who already have diabetes. Diabetes is NOT contagious. (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, 2006)

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